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"The past five years have seen rapid development and a total investment of 438 billion yuan (66.57 billion US dollars) made in the Tibetan-inhabited areas of Qinghai Province, 3.8 times as much as that in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) period. A large number of major infrastructure and public service projects have been completed in succession,” said Hao Peng, Governor of Qinghai Province, when making a report on the work of the government at the fifth session of the 12th Qinghai Provincial People’s Congress Conference.

The past five years have witnessed historic changes in the appearance of the Tibetan-inhabited areas in Qinghai, the governor said.

All the goals of the post-disaster reconstruction in Yushu have been realized, becoming landmark achievements in the Tibetan-inhabited areas nationwide. Support has been given to accelerate the development of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and relevant projects have been launched for the security and rejuvenation of the border areas of Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan. A total of 113,000 nomads have settled down, and heat supply has been available in the urban areas of the Tibetan counties. The living conditions in the agricultural and pastoral areas have been continuously improved. All the Tibetan-inhabited areas in Qinghai have been provided with safe drinking water, residential electricity, passenger buses, inclusive financial services and postal services, etc. About 650,000 people have gained access to reliable power supply, and clean water has been accessible to 1.624 million people.  

The Sanjiangyuan region of Qinghai Province and the areas around the Qinghai Lake are inhabited by Tibetan people. Hao Peng called for efforts to strengthen the ecological protection and vigorously build key ecological product supply base, ecological security barrier and characteristic cultural tourism destination at the national level in the Sanjiangyuan region, and develop featured industries such as breeding, processing and tourism and build a provincial eco-tourism and modern ecological animal husbandry development demonstration area in the areas around the Qinghai Lake.  

"We have deeply realized that the development of Qinghai requires overall work for ethnic solidarity and social and religious harmony, greater support to the Tibetan-inhabited areas and the ethnic groups with relatively small population as well as efforts to promote exchanges between various ethnic groups,” said Hao Peng.